Slammed by Colleen Hoover - Book Review

“Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”

Slammed, it’s Colleen Hoover’s debut novel, published in January 2012. She is the #1 New York Times best selling author of eleven novels and five novellas. Slammed is a novel that will make you hold your breath at it’s every page, a novel that will show you the cruelty of life, a novel that will make you feel the heartache of the losses it’s keeping inside, a novel that will make you both smile and sob at the same time, a novel that will teach you how to put emphasis on Life.
After the tragic death of her father, eighteen year old Layken Cohen moves to Michigan with her nine year old brother Kel and mother Julia. She’s acting all tough for her family but inside she’s breaking so badly. On her first day in Michigan, Layken meets her new neighbor Will Cooper, a twenty one year old handsome guy with only one little brother, Caulder, in his family.
Will has this amazing passion for slam poetry and he often performs some of his own at Club N9NE on Thursdays. Will’s personality impresses Layken and she starts to look forward to meeting him everyday.
Soon their lives took a dramatic turn and their hopes get crushed by the cruelty of life and once again Layken finds herself in the deep sea of sadness and loneliness. The girl who thought that life is giving her a chance to be happy becomes the girl who feels that she’s is never ending pain.
The extra ordinary bond that both lovers share is the only hope they hold. The hope for their future and for their complicated lives.

“Be accepting. Of everything. People’s differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.”

Will, who never, for even once, stops thinking about layken expresses his feelings in a slam. They both face hardships that life throws at them in their own ways. Soon the storm passes and the light of love brightens their lives, clear their visions and their extra ordinary bond finds its way to remain alive.

“Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.”